PLEASE NOTE, ALL DISTANCES INCLUDING THE TOTAL ARE APPROXIMATE

HORSE-SHOE TRAIL OR HST, BLAZED YELLOW
WATER TANK TRAIL OR WTT, BLAZED BLUE
MARCIA'S MADNESS OR MM, BLAZED ORANGE
APPALACHIAN TRAIL OR AT, BLAZED WHITE

IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE COURSE CARRY AND READ THESE INSRUCTIONS OR RUN WITH SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE COURSE

THE FIRST 12.3 MILES ARE ON A COMBINATION OF YELLOW BLAZED TRAIL, LOGGING ROAD, GRAVEL RAIL BED, BLUE BLAZED TRAIL, ORANGE BLAZED TRAIL THEN BACK ONTO YELLOW BLAZED TRAIL

FOLLOW THE YELLOW BLAZED H.S.T. FOR THE FIRST 2 MILES

Leave parking lot on dirt road, in about half a mile there will be a yellow blazed trail coming in from the right and joining the dirt road. Make special note of this intersection, do not turn left here on your return, continue straight to the finish. Follow the road and the yellow blazes until you cross the pipeline the second time (the first time was on the small wooden bridge on the first uphill) then turn RIGHT onto the pipeline continuing to follow the yellow blazes. Follow the pipeline and the yellow blazes to the top of Second Mt. and about a third of the way down the other side.

TURN RIGHT ONTO A SINGLE TRACK TRAIL WHICH CONNECTS IMMEDIATELY WITH A LOGGING ROAD. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON.
Continue on this road for approx. 2 miles to the wooden bridge over Stoney Creek. DO NOT make any turns off this road until after you cross the bridge. After crossing the bridge you will come to the rail bed.

TURN LEFT ONTO THE RAIL BED. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON.

Follow the rail bed for 1 mile to the blue blazed Water Tank Trail. There is a small sign on the left identifying the trail.

TURN RIGHT ONTO THE BLUE BLAZED WATER TANK TRAIL. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON
FOLLOW BLUE AND ORANGE BLAZES FOR THE NEXT 2 TO 3 MILES

Follow the blue blazes for about ½ mile, when the trail starts to get steep look for the orange blazed Marcia's Madness Trail going to the right.

TURN RIGHT ONTO THE ORANGE BLAZED MARCIA'S MADNESS TRAIL. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON.

Follow it to the top of the mountain where it rejoins the yellow blazed Horse-Shoe Trail.

TURN RIGHT ONTO THE YELLOW BLAZED HORSE-SHOE TRAIL. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON.

FOLLOW THE YELLOW BLAZES FOR THE NEXT 3 TO 4 MILES

When the road becomes rocky and steeply downhill look for the yellow blazes to turn LEFT onto a single-track trail. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON. Follow this trail across a small boulder field then to the top of Stony Mt. where the HST terminates with the white blazed AT.

TURN LEFT AND FOLLOW THE WHITE BLAZED A.T. FOR THE NEXT 3.2 MILES. THE TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON

Follow the white blazes for approx. three miles to Clark's Valley. Go to the bridge at the parking lot and cross over to the aid station.

FOLLOW THE BLUE BLAZED W.T.T. FOR THE NEXT 3 MILES

Turn around and retrace your steps for 50 yards or so then turn RIGHT onto the blue blazed WTT. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON. Follow the blue blazes for approx. one and a half miles. You will come to a clearing where a logging road goes left and uphill, DO NOT TURN HERE continue on for about two hundred yards then turn left onto a blue blazed single track trail. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON. Continue on to the top of Third Mt. where the trail intersects the yellow blazed HST.

TURN RIGHT ONTO THE YELLOW BLAZED H.S.T. TURN WILL BE MARKED WITH BLUE FLOUR OR BLUE RIBBON. STAY ON THE YELLOW BLAZED HORSE-SHOE TRAIL FOR APPROX. 7 MILES TO THE FINISH.

Follow the yellow blazed fire road to the bottom of the mountain. Near the bottom of the hill the yellow blazes will exit left onto the gas pipeline, follow them. Turn LEFT onto the gravel road, turn will not be flagged, in about ¼ mile follow the yellow blazes to the RIGHT down the hill to the site of the former cable bridge. Wade across the creek, find the yellow blazes and follow them to the top of Second Mountain The last two miles are the same trail as the first two.